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"Death Penalty Under Examination." State Legislatures 35.6 (2009): 10. Academic Search Elite. EBSCO. Web. 31 Mar. 2010.
  • New Mexico decides to abolish death penalty with a new law
    • replaced death penalty with a life sentence without parole
  • Two men on death row will not be affected by the law
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"Roper v. Sullivan The Supreme Court Prohibits the Execution of Minors." Supreme Court Debates 13.1 (2010): 6-8. Academic Search Elite. EBSCO. Web. 31 Mar. 2010.
  • Capital punishment for minors Constitutionally prohibited
    • eighth ammendment protects US citizens from "cruel and unusual punishment"
    • fourteenth ammendment:"...enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States..."
  • ** Fourteenth Amendment site :
http://topics.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv
    • Background: bound, gagged, robbed, and drowned.
      • I don't think that such 'cruel and unusual' treatment should be tolerated. I think that the punishment should fit the crime.

What's the Last Word in Capital Punishment?
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WHAT'S THE LAST WORD IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT?." Newsweek 154.22 (2009): 60. Academic Search Elite. EBSCO. Web. 31 Mar. 2010.
  • Love is the most used word. I wonder why.
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Does Sentencing a 13-Year-Old Offender to Life Without Parole Constitute "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"?." Supreme Court Debates 13.1 (2010): 2. MAS Ultra - School Edition. EBSCO. Web. 2 Apr. 2010.
  • " ...condemning someone to die for crimes committed while under 18 was an unnecessarily harsh punishment"
  • "During the 1980s and 1990s, some States faced what they perceived to be a growing epidemic of juvenile crime. To address it, many allowed more minors to be tried as adults,modified parole procedures to make them more stringent, or abolished parole altogether."

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Jacobs, David, and Jason T. Carmichael. "Ideology, Social Threat, and the Death Sentence: Capital Sentences across Time and Space." Social Forces 83.1 (2004): 249-278. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 6 Apr. 2010.
  • "Death sentences are extremely unusual, so no existing court data sets furnish
the information necessary to study the number of these sentences"

  • The economy plays a big role in the number of death sentences that are committed each year.
  • Death sentences are usually given because of biases.( race, sex, religion based)